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Direct linkKarla K. McGregor; Lisa Goffman; Elena Plante; Krystal Werfel – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: We aimed to create a comprehensive understanding of the dilemmas involved in the diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) and to highlight the potential of a multidimensional spectral account of DLD for addressing these dilemmas. Method: We conducted an integrative literature review. Conclusions: Considerable gains in…
Descriptors: Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Language Impairments, Disability Identification, Genetics
Joseph A. Hogan – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2025
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (2004) allows alternate pathways for school districts to identify and classify students with a specific learning disability (SLD). Response to Intervention (RtI) is one of the frameworks schools can use when eliminating the use of the discrepancy model. The premise of RtI posits that…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Classification
Accuracy of the Screening Tool for Autism in Toddlers and Young Children in the Primary Care Setting
Rebecca McNally Keehn; Noha F. Minshawi; Qing Tang; Brett Enneking; Tybytha Ryan; Ann Marie Martin; Angela Paxton; Patrick O. Monahan; Mary Ciccarelli; Brandon Keehn – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Feasible and accurate assessment tools developed for non-specialists are needed to scale community-based models of autism evaluation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate use of the Screening Tool for Autism in Toddlers and Young Children (STAT) when used by primary care practitioners (n = 10) across a statewide system of early diagnosis set…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Accuracy, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Toddlers
Tara Kulkarni; Elizabeth L. Shaver; Thuy Nguyen; Edvin Pepic; Evie M. Harter; Amanda L. Sullivan – Exceptional Children, 2026
Educators, families, and policy actors rely on federal and state special education law to inform many decision-making processes. Vague eligibility criteria within the laws can result in conflict between school districts and parents. Resulting due process hearing decisions can have important implications for future practice. One area of particular…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Disability Identification, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Court Litigation
Bryant G. Hopkins; Matthew Guzman; Scott A. Imberman; Adrea J. Truckenmiller; Katharine O. Strunk; Marisa H. Fisher – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
We use data from Michigan and an interrupted time series strategy to show how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted special education identifications and discontinuations. We find a substantial decrease in K-5 identifications and discontinuations during the 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021 school years. Identifications fell by 19% and 12% in the first two…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Special Education, Disability Identification
Lovisa Alehagen; Sven Bölte; Melissa H Black – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health is a biopsychosocial framework of health-related functioning designed to provide a unifying system for health care, social services, education, and policy sectors. Since its publication in 2001, the International Classification of Functioning has been used to guide clinical…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Classification, Functional Behavioral Assessment
